EDIT 3: gilgamesh on the Big Bridge has been the biggest challenge yet. ive updated the walkthrough/outline once more, including dragon power (+20 levels! damn!). as well, im wondering if anything should ever be bought as far as weapons/armors are concerned. perhaps running shoes in mirage before n-zone? (and rememeber, money is not a problem). i picked up some stuff at lugor just because. it would be more impressive to never get any weapons/armor, but that might not happen. well, discounting rods/scrolls. hmm... i wonder how well shurikens and pinwheels will come into play? they do a good number of damage, and ninjas have high agility.
another thing, what about MUST LEARN abilities? are there any? MIX, BLUE and CONTROL came to mind (im not gonna entertain the idea of something as high up as 2-swords or x-fight, so forget it).
as well, gil toss might be useful at some point.
Thieves have Secret, Flee and Dash (the first is useless because of save states and for-sight).
Ninjas have Twin and FirstAttack (just throwing it out there).
Hunters have Aim.
Geomancer's Earth/Terrain (prolly not... we'll just keep those guys for floors where damage is taken)
Bard has Hide.
i wonder about anything else being useful too. maybe, maybe not.
EDIT 2: ok, im not having TOO much trouble running from battles. only 2 instances have occured thus far i had trouble with. one was Garkimasa in Worus Basement. he had to attack and kill someone first before we ran. the next was the Sand Bears of Sand Tides (3 TIMES THIS HAPPENED! thank god someone lived). so, why there and not anywhere else?
oh, and just now a Hydra in the ruins... the jerk just had to Poison Breath me before, didnt he?
EDIT: i just performed the infinite item glitch. the battle axe resells for 325 gil. i didnt try for the Hammer because i was getting hammered by the three enemies (haha). however, i think i found something better. back at Ship of Graveyards, you can gain ethers from Undead Rusks. and not just 99, but 255. selling all those at once 191250 gil resold (750 a pop)!
ladies... gentlemen... i believe we've solved our financial problems. im off to buy some rods and scrolls!
does anyone have any suggestion in the way of armors? like what would be beneficial. since post-garula, ive had 3 blue mages and a thief; only switching to 3 thieves and a ninja for infinite items.
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i checked the Blue Mage learning thing. you might wanna inform him some of those spells can be learned earlier (the barrier tower ones im picking up).
im not sure if Exploder = ExDeath dies vs Galuf counts as a glitch, but it would be funny as hell, especially with such low HP. perhaps i should give Galuf a wall ring in the battle beforehand to ensure he'll have HP for ExDeath (i think he starts by double casting Fire and Ice 3 back to back).
oh, and ill also gain somewhere in the neighborhood of < 300 ABP (a third of it in the N-Zone) during the course of the game. this is from all battles excluding Shield Dragon and other extracirricular things. the page i used is at
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as far as Elixirs, the options are:
-Garkimasa (Worus Basement)
-Tree Segments
-ExDeath (forest & Castle?)
-Gigas
-Pantera
-Rock Brain
-Sol Cannon
-Whirl Demon
-White Flame
-Zephyr Zone
-Zuu (!!!!)
*for random encounters, im not sure where ill encounter some monsters, so i might not be able to use ALL those sources.
Zuu! yes... hes right around Karnak... unfortunately, Elixirs resale is a measly 5 gil (bastards!). in any case, those are my options.
i just got past where Bocos video was. of course, my time is 20 minutes more because its done mostly in real time and with Turbo (= extremely less precision). getting Level 5 Death was a PAIN. but battle manipulation is somewhat simple and less precise than i thought (defend = physical attack, steal = level 5 death; some stuff like that).